We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …

during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … to selection into different environments, the high PGS children are simply better at extracting resources from a given …

performance, college enrollment, choice, and persistence.On average, we find that children eligible to start school at a …

' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …

It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will … find it difficult to escape poverty. If children's school attendance and work were highly substitutable activities, it … children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between …

This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school … quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using rich data from England that matches pupils to … their primary schools. The dataset records all English pupils and their test scores in Key Stage 1 (age 7) and Key Stage 2 …